How to Use supercomputer in a Sentence

supercomputer

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  • And in this case, the record came at a much faster speed—good news for the supercomputer.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2021
  • The rows of printers look like a dead ringer for IBM supercomputer rooms of the 1960s.
    — Diana Budds, Curbed, 6 May 2022
  • Death Skull went to the den and flicked on his supercomputer.
    — Simon Rich, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
  • There’s a new king of the supercomputer standings, though the crown may not rest on it for too long.
    — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 23 June 2020
  • To create the xenobots in the first place, the team used a supercomputer to create a blueprint for a new life form.
    — Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2021
  • The supercomputer then at Oak Ridge, named Jaguar, used up to about 8.2 megawatts per hour, says Nichols.
    — Doug Strickland, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2021
  • The video fails to predict that the bot might one day come along in a pocket-sized supercomputer.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The schools run some of the world’s most advanced supercomputers.
    — William J. Broad, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2020
  • The supercomputer came up with a C-shape that resembled Pac-Man, the 1980s video game.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Yet, the list of top 500 supercomputers, counts fewer than five in the country.
    — Som Satsangi, Quartz India, 26 Sep. 2019
  • The two fastest supercomputers from China clock in at 93 and 33 petaflops.
    — April Glaser, Slate Magazine, 18 Sep. 2017
  • The program ran for 26 months on the Hazel Hen supercomputer in Germany.
    — Scientific American, 18 Nov. 2019
  • Since the 1990s the power of supercomputers has increased by a factor of a million or so.
    — Jeremy Smith, The Conversation, 3 June 2020
  • Today, the phone in your pocket outpaces the supercomputers of that era in terms of raw power.
    — Avery Pennarun, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The achievement meant that the two most powerful supercomputers in the world are now powered by AMD chips.
    — Billy Perrigo, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Summit’s potential perch at the top of the fastest supercomputer list may be short-lived.
    — Jay Greene, WSJ, 8 June 2018
  • Deep Blue, a nearly 3,000-pound, one-of-a-kind supercomputer, could hardly change the game by itself.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2022
  • SenseTime plans to build at least five supercomputers in top-tier cities over the coming year to drive Viper and other services.
    — Fortune, 9 Apr. 2018
  • That means the supercomputer had to keep churning out stars for much longer than expected.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Image The United States just won bragging rights in the race to build the world’s speediest supercomputer.
    — Steve Lohr, New York Times, 8 June 2018
  • Models of this scale are so large, they can only be trained with supercomputers.
    — Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The Traveling Salesman Problem on a graph of a few hundred points would take years to run on a supercomputer.
    — Jie Wang, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2023
  • But that might finally be about to change, as the world’s new fastest supercomputer is now online within the borders of the United States.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2018
  • In the summer of 2017, the authorities unveiled the Ürümqi Cloud Computing Center, a supercomputer that ranked among the fastest in the world.
    — David Remnic, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
  • China still has the world’s most supercomputers over all.
    — Steve Lohr, New York Times, 8 June 2018
  • The supercomputer will be built in phases, and MSOE will be responsible for coming up with the money to build it.
    — Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Over the years, however, many of these companies have been involved in the Top500 list of supercomputers.
    — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 21 June 2019
  • The sensors in the ice pass their readings to a mini-supercomputer sitting on the surface that crunches the data in real time.
    — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 12 June 2020
  • In less than two seconds, the model can produce a week-long forecast for a range of variables, such as wind speed and precipitation—what once required a supercomputer and several hours can now be done with far less hardware.
    — Tharin Pillay, TIME, 6 Feb. 2025
  • And the best supercomputers today can handle a quintillion—that is, a billion billion—operations per second.
    — Charina Chou, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025

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